Chris Cauhape

Chris Cauhapé |Staff Writer|
Worldwide, "nearly 7,000,000 people get a mosquito borne illness each year resulting in greater than 1,000,000 deaths," according to Oxitec.
There are two species of mosquito that spread Zika Fever.
In order to spread the virus, they must first bite an infected human and transmit it to another with a subsequent bite.
These two mosquito species, Aedes Aegypti and Aedes Albopictus, are ominously known as the Yellow Fever and the Asian Tiger mosquito. They are black with white stripes—hence "tiger."
Not only do they spread yellow fever, they are also responsible for the spread of the chikungunya virus, dengue, Eastern equine encephalitis and the West … [Read more...] about Zika Virus